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Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet
Captain Sir George Ferdinand Radziwill Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet JP DL (24 May 1825 – 1 August 1896) was a British soldier. Early life Walker was born on 24 May 1825, the eldest son of the four sons and two daughters of General Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, and his second wife, the former Helen Caldcleugh, a daughter of Alexander Caldcleugh. His paternal grandparents were Major Nathaniel Walker of the Queen's Rangers and Henrietta Bagster, daughter and heiress of Captain John Bagster of the Royal Navy). Through his uncle, General Frederick Nathaniel Walker, he was a first cousin of General Sir Edward Forestier-Walker, who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland, and married Lady Jane Ogilvy-Grant, a daughter of Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield). Career After being educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1845 he was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards and later promoted to Captain. Upon the death of his father on 14 November 1842, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (British Army And Royal Marines)
Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant and below Major (United Kingdom), major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. The rank of Captain (Royal Navy), captain in the Royal Navy is considerably more senior (equivalent to the Army/RM rank of colonel) and the two ranks should not be confused. In the 21st-century British Army, captains are often appointed to be second-in-command (2IC) of a Company (military unit), company or equivalent sized unit of up to 120 soldiers. History A rank of second captain existed in the Ordnance at the time of the Battle of Waterloo. From 1 April 1918 to 31 July 1919, the Royal Air Force maintained the junior officer rank of captain. RAF captains had a rank insignia based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet
Sir George Ferdinand Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet JP DL (7 July 1855 – 18 July 1933) was a British soldier. Early life George Ferdinand Forestier-Walker was born on 7 July 1855. He was the eldest of eight sons of Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet, and the Hon. Fanny Henrietta Morgan (–1887). His younger siblings included Radziwill Frederick Forestier-Walker (who married Eva Laura Justice), Clarence Francis Forestier-Walker (who married Blanche Lancaster Clark), Ivor Augustus Forestier-Walker (who married Georgina Osborne, and, after her death, Agnes Maud Mayhew), Devereux Philip Forestier-Walker (who married Isabella Constance Dalgety), Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker, 1st Baronet, MP for Monmouth (who married Alice Blandy-Jenkins), Roland Stuart Forestier-Walker (who married Olive Bassett, and, after their divorce, Norah Jacintha ( Phipps), Lady Fuller, the widow of Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet), and Charles Evelyn Forestier-Walker (who married Ada Llewelyn Mansel). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). * January 17 – Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British British Army, redcoats enter the Ashanti people, Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1825 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Francis. * February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its wide isthmus. * February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 United States presidential election, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election. * February 10 – Gideon Mantell names and describes the second known dinosaur ''Iguanodon''. * February 10 – Simón Bolívar gives up his title of dictator of Peru and takes the alternative title of ''El Libertador''. * February 12 – Second Treaty of Indian Springs: The Creek (people), Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forestier-Walker Baronets
The United Kingdom Walker baronetcy – later Forestier-Walker baronetcy of Castleton in the County of Monmouth, was created on 28 March 1835, for the soldier George Walker. The 2nd Baronet assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Forestier, in 1893. Walker, then Forestier-Walker Baronets, of Castleton (1835) * Sir George Townshend Walker, 1st Baronet (1764–1842) * Sir George Ferdinand Radziwill Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet (1825–1896) * Sir George Ferdinand Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet (1855–1933) *Sir George Ferdinand Forestier-Walker, 4th Baronet (1899–1976) *Sir Clive Radziwill Forestier-Walker, 5th Baronet (1922–1983) *Sir Michael Leolin Forestier-Walker, 6th Baronet (born 1949) The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Joseph Alan Forestier-Walker (born 1992), only son of the 6th Baronet. See also *Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker General (United Kingdom), General Sir Frederick William Edward Forestier-Walker, (17 April 1844 – 30 August 1910) was a Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage, baronetage, knightage and landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. His first publication, a ''Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom'', was updated sporadically until 1847, when the company began publishing new editions every year as ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'' (often shortened and known as ''Burke's Peerage''). Other books followed, including '' Burke's Landed Gentry'', '' Burke's Colonial Gentry'', and '' Burke's General Armory''. In addition to its peerage publications, the ''Burke's'' publishing company produced books on Royal families of Europe and Latin America, rulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary), Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County, Delaware, New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading, Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westbury (UK Parliament Constituency)
Westbury was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Wiltshire from 1449 to 2010. It was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, and then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 2010. Until 1885, it was a parliamentary borough, returning two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) until 1832 and only one from 1832 to 1885. The parliamentary borough was abolished in 1885, when the name was transferred to a county constituency returning one MP. Elections used the Plurality-at-large voting, bloc vote system when two MPs were returned, and the first-past-the-post system of election when one seat was contested. Westbury returned a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member at every election after 1924. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Bradford- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles N
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet
Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet, (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. Biography Fuller was the eldest son of George Fuller, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, and his wife Emily Georgina Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested Parliament three times but in 1900 he was successfully returned for Westbury. He served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1906 to 1907 and under Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1907 to 1911.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (Online edition at FULLER (UK) 1910, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire', Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, page B369, from Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage at ww ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basset Family
Members of the Basset family were amongst the early Normans, Norman settlers in the Kingdom of England. It is currently one of the few ancient Norman families who has survived through the centuries in the paternal line. They originated at Montreuil-au-Houlme in the Duchy of Normandy. Origins Genealogists over many years have held the mistaken belief that the progenitor of the Basset family in England was one Thurstan Basset who had many pagan beliefs: he said that he was of "old Valor". As early as the sixteenth century, Sampson Erdeswicke proclaimed "Turstin de Basset" as owner of five hides of land at Drayton, Staffordshire, and as father of Ralph Basset, Chief Justice of England. (Erdeswicke’s thorough manuscript was not published until the nineteenth century). Erdeswicke based this claim on an entry in the Domesday Book naming "Turstin" as lord of the manor of "Draiton" in the landholdings of Staffordshire. A manor, which was known later as Drayton Bassett, became the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monmouth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Monmouth () was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Palace of Westminster, Westminster). The seat was created for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election. From 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 until 2024 the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) was David T. C. Davies, David Davies of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. The Monmouth (Senedd constituency), Monmouth Senedd constituency was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency. These covered a large area, omitting the mainly urban areas of Blaenau Gwent in the west and Newport, Wales in the south. The constituency was abolished as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales#Final recommendations, June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
